Prompt: None but the fact that I was mad at Toph after "Operation Beifong"

"What the flameo! How could you tell her like that?"

Kya shouldn't have been surprised that the blind woman who didn't so much as flinch when boulders were hurled at her didn't react to her sudden outburst. But, damn it, she wanted her to.

"I've never even heard of him," Kya rambled, shocked. "And, I mean, I was around."

Toph crossed her wiry arms behind her head. "Can't think of any reason I would have told a toddler the intimate details of my life," she finally answered flatly.

"Kanto. I've never even heard his name."

On her feet now, Kya paced the room and the questions poured out, rapid fire.

"Who was he? Did he know about Lin? Why wasn't he ever there? How did you meet? Was he an earthbender too? Is he still alive?"

And if he were would Lin even want to meet him? she thought. Lin hadn't brought it up in years but there was a time, when she was just a kid, that she'd been obsessed with finding out who her father was. That's probably when Detective Lin Beifong had been born, snooping around her mom's things when she was out, discovering that blind women—and honestly, no one had ever accused Toph Beifong of being the sentimental type—kept very few mementos, let alone incriminating love letters. Kya hadn't understood what the fuss was about at the time. She knew exactly who her dad was but that didn't mean he was there.

Toph's shrug stopped Kya's pacing cold. She could only ask, "Spirits, Aunt Toph. What did she say?"

"Not much. Probably made that face."

Kya could imagine all too precisely what Lin had looked like—and knew how much Lin would have hated being that exposed if only momentarily.

"She couldn't have been 'okay,'" Kya spat. "Do you know what this means to her? Do you even care?"

Toph stretched her arms out, brought her hands together, and cracked her knuckles loudly.

If it were a warning, Kya didn't care.

"Of course you don't," she answered for her.

"Kya."

Up until now Katara had sat silently to the side and let her daughter vent. After all, hadn't she asked Toph many of these same questions herself decades ago? But she wouldn't let Kya suggest her old friend didn't love her girls—Toph just always had a strange way of showing affection.

Kya's attention shifted to her own mother, blue eyes narrowing sharply.

"Did you know this whole time?"

Katara nodded.

"And Dad knew too?"

"It wasn't our decision to make, sweetheart."

"You lied."

"Have I told you how much I enjoy your little visits?"

"Have I told you how fat you've gotten since the last time I saw you? Besides, Lin should thank me."

"For the pleasure of being your daughter?"

"That too. But 100 yuans says Sugar Queen Jr is packing her bags for Republic City right now."